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$("#presence").remove()

And yeah, I did that right away. Fun for a moment but extremely distracting.

Agreed. It's an absolutely useless feature for me to see as well.

https://times.hntrends.net/story/44813397

I use NoScript, which catches all of these sorts of things by default. I only enable first-party JS when there's a clear good reason why the site should need it, and third-party JS basically never beyond NoScript's default whitelist.

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Reader mode.

Block ###presence with UBlock.